Tablet computers seem to be everywhere. It is no surprise that Dell would jump into the tablet market with the Dell Streak. The unique thing about the Dell Streak is that it is both a tablet computer and a smartphone. The Dell Streak has mobile phone service through AT&T. This tablet has a 5 inch touchscreen display screen, Android 1.6 operating system and a fast 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.

The Dell Streak has one touch access to some of the most popular Google mobile services. These include YouTube, Picasa, Google Maps, GTalk instant messaging and Google Search. The Streak also features quick access to email, calendars, contacts and thousands of applications from the Android Market. One of the other great features about the Dell Streak is the high resolution 5 megapixel camera which can also be used as a camcorder. The camera features auto-focus and dual LED flash. The Streak’s camera has a front facing camera for easy video chatting. Some of the other features of the Dell Streak are 2 GB internal memory, stereo and device music streaming, a 1530 mAh rechargeable battery and a microSD memory expansion slot. The Dell Streak is the perfect tablet/smartphone for the person who wants to take the world with them wherever they may go.

Smartphones are where mobile phones are heading in the future. They can do just about everything you might need to and talk to people. Well what if your laptop performed just like your smartphone did? Would you be more likely to buy it if you where already happy with the technology? That is the question that Compaq set off to answer when they unveiled the Compaq Airlife 100.

This laptop was designed by Compaq to have all of the latest laptop technologies along with the incorporation of smartphone capabilities, these new types of computers are known as smartbooks. There are many things that make this smartbook different from other computers or smartphones available on the market. Some of the features of this smartbook are a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 512 MB RAM, 512 MB Flash memory, 16 GB Flash storage, 3G internet antenna with 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi, and an Android Operating System. The Compaq Airlife 100 also has smartphone features like Bluetooth, calendar, weather app and contacts. The smartbook has a 10.1 inch backlit TFT touch screen. It also offers a microUSB port and SD slot that will support up to 32 GB. All of these features are powered by a rechargeable Li-Polymer battery.

Technology has allowed things to come in much smaller packages then they used to. An example of this can be seen in how small some of the new laptops are being made while making them faster than ever. When people think about making computer smaller, they don’t often think about making them the size of keyboards. That wasn’t true for the people at ASUS who have developed the Eee Keyboard PC.

This is a keyboard that contains all of the things that would be in your PC. This allows anyone who has a HDMI ready TV they can take this keyboard PC into any room and use it. On the keyboard is a built in 5 inch multi-touch display that can be used to master the media available through the keyboard PC. It also features an Easy Mode that will allow you to access the Internet, photos, music and even Skype. The ASUS Eee Keyboard PC has a built in high speed wireless N network, ultra wideband technology and Broadcom Crystal HD technology. It also has a built in battery that allows for 4 hours of unplugged use. Right now the ASUS Eee Keyboard is available for pre-order through Amazon and costs $599.

Laptops are becoming more and more powerful and specialized with each new one that is put onto the market. Many people are buying laptops that are good for one thing such as watching movies or creating movies, doing school work and gaming. Gaming laptops are becoming more popular with all the new and exciting computer games that are being designed. Just about every computer maker has a computer that has made its name by being an excellent gaming computer. Dell has its Alienware line and now Maingear has the EX-L 15.

Maingear EX-L has been based on the new 2010 Intel Core i5 or i7 processors and has been coupled with DirectX11 horsepower. This means that the EX-L has super fast processors, great DDR3 memory, super fast speed GPU and some of the best mobile hard drives available. The Maingear EX-L 15 is available with full HD 1080p and a standard 1600×900 resolution display. This display is backlit with LED to make it more energy efficient while keeping the gaming quality. Maingear has made this laptop with a solid state drive to lessen noise, heat and any other moving parts. The Maingear EX-L 15 can be found here and will set you back around $1600.

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To be honest, building a computer inside of an aquarium filled with clear mineral oil, seems to be a great challenge and the guys at PugetSystems did it. They managed to submerge, first an old computer and then an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, 2GB of RAM (OCZ), with an NVIDIA 650i Ultra motherboard, a 8600 GT video card and a 74GB Western Digital Raptor hard drive.

They used an Eclypse System 6 Aquarium, Lian-Li motherboard tray, clear acrylic panel, silicon sealant, weather stripping, an air pump and bubble bar for the bubbles of course, and obviously 5-6 gallons of mineral oil.

This is just a fun model and Puget Systems won’t sell it. Here are more info if you want to build your own.

Remember the story about the “$100 laptop”? It seems the project doesn’t respect the initial plan anymore. The price tag has reach $200 now. Perhaps they should reconsider the campaign’s name in the $200 laptop. The actual reality is far from the Nicholas Negroponte’s projections.

After the laptop was priced at $150 in Februry, at $175 in April and $188 two weeks ago, it reached a new level. The XO laptops were put out for sale in lots of 10,000 for $200 a piece. The One Laptop per Child Foundation announced three countries involved in the project till now – Uruguay, Peru and Mongolia. Probably their credibility decreased in the last months, so the deals with other governments failed.

Currently the laptop features a keyboard that switches languages, a video camera, Wi-Fi and Linux software. Microsoft Corp. has agreed to release a compatible Windows XP version for the XO laptop, but we don’t know when it will be ready.

We are looking forward to receive good new about this project, as it could be a great way of increasing the learning skills in poor regions.

via Reuters